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Gone, wonderful! Now I can really see how great the project looks. I layed it flat and let it dry. I will eventually turn this into a pillow cover...

As I was growing up, my sisters and I were not allowed to sit in front of the TV without some handiwork in our hands. It didn’t matter is it was embroidery, knitting crochet, etc. long as our hands were busy. To this day, I have a really hard time just sitting and watching TV. Of late I have been listening to audio books while I have been doing handiwork. Not too long ago, I was looking at Pintrest, when I found this free coloring page found here: http://www.doverpublications.com/zb/samples/480356/children72b.htm.
The first thing I thought was, “that would look great embroidered”. So this is how I choose to embroider it. By the by, it took 1 ½ audio books (over 12 hours) to get this completed, working every free moment until done.

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Tape the picture you want to transfer to the light box using the masking tape.

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Tape the muslin fabric over the picture, centering it as best you can. Turn on the light box. See how the picture shines through the fabric.

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Get out the water erasable fabric marking pen and trace the parts of the picture you want to embroidery. I wanted the owl, the tree and the flowers. I left out the little circles with dots in the middle.

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When you are done, turn off the light box and remove the fabric from the box.

Thank you very much. I have been planing on making a blanket for my boyfriend with the middle earth map on it and could not figure out how I was going to freehand the image onto the cloth this will help so much. Thank you.

Thank you so much for this tutorial , I love embroidery and your examples of stitches look easy enough for me to follow Your pillow is beautiful and the soldier will love it Thank you for inspiring me to do the same thing , ( If my artwork turns out nice enough) I hope to send it to a soldier also. Bless you